I have always created a root password in Ubuntu. I very rarely, if ever need it, except for goof-ups.
With this 9.10 version, I am grateful I can log into gnome as root. As I wrote earlier, gnome is great for file manipulation. (selective copies, deletes, etc) and is thus a time saver and a safer option then command line, especially when one is in a hurry. I actually find sudo su for command line the same as going ctl-alt fn (n = 1..6) the same as logging to root, so whats the difference. I believe it is a question only of mental comfort level. ------------------ Regards Mr. Leslie Leslie Satenstein mailto:[email protected] mailto [email protected] www.itbms.biz --- On Thu, 11/19/09, David Montminy <[email protected]> wrote: From: David Montminy <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MLUG] setuid To: "Montreal Linux Users Group" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 11:24 AM concepts wrote: > ar...@aries:~$ su - > Password: > su: Authentication failure > > Is there a password that I don't know about? Shouldn't be the same as the one > I use as 'user aries'? > > André. > > There is no root password on Ubuntu. You need to reboot in single user mode if you wish to be root. The steps are here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecoveryMode Basicly, it's: 1)Reboot 2)Press ESC to see grub menu if it's hidden 3)Select (Recovery) 4)See r...@machine:~# prompt... you are now root with no X and limited services 5)Do what you have to do... 6)Reboot There is also a LiveCD recovery method: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCdRecovery I strongly advise again setting a root password in Ubuntu, unless you know what you are doing. But you can if you want to because it won't break anything. David Montminy _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
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